Cellar Door
3 December 2024
An Enchanted Cellar with Animals, about 1655–1670, Cornelis Saftleven. Courtesy of Getty.edu.
For all the sounds that I have heard, there are none more beautiful than your voice. No darkness I could lie in could not be lighted with its golden splendor. Any word or note or laugh or cry from it transcends the cellar door.
—GL